Phloem loading and unloading of sucrose: what a long, strange trip from source to sink

DM Braun - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Sucrose is transported from sources (mature leaves) to sinks (importing tissues such as
roots, stems, fruits, and seeds) through the phloem tissues in veins. In many herbaceous …

Advances and opportunities in single-cell transcriptomics for plant research

C Seyfferth, J Renema, JR Wendrich… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Single-cell approaches are quickly changing our view on biological systems by increasing
the spatiotemporal resolution of our analyses to the level of the individual cell. The field of …

The single-cell stereo-seq reveals region-specific cell subtypes and transcriptome profiling in Arabidopsis leaves

K Xia, HX Sun, J Li, J Li, Y Zhao, L Chen, C Qin… - Developmental Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding the complex functions of plant leaves requires a thorough characterization of
discrete cell features. Although single-cell gene expression profiling technologies have …

Single-cell multi-omics in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus

C Li, JC Wood, AH Vu, JP Hamilton… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in omics technologies now permit the generation of highly contiguous genome
assemblies, detection of transcripts and metabolites at the level of single cells and high …

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides a high-resolution roadmap for understanding the multicellular compartmentation of specialized metabolism

S Sun, X Shen, Y Li, Y Li, S Wang, R Li, H Zhang… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) are among the most diverse specialized metabolites
in plants and are of great pharmaceutical importance. We leveraged single-cell …

Spatial metatranscriptomics resolves host–bacteria–fungi interactomes

S Saarenpää, O Shalev, H Ashkenazy, V Carlos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The interactions of microorganisms among themselves and with their multicellular host take
place at the microscale, forming complex networks and spatial patterns. Existing technology …

Single-cell resolution of lineage trajectories in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage and developing leaf

CB Lopez-Anido, A Vatén, NK Smoot, N Sharma… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Dynamic cell identities underlie flexible developmental programs. The stomatal lineage in
the Arabidopsis leaf epidermis features asynchronous and indeterminate divisions that can …

Single‐cell RNA‐seq reveals fate determination control of an individual fibre cell initiation in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

Y Qin, M Sun, W Li, M Xu, L Shao, Y Liu… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cotton fibre is a unicellular seed trichome, and lint fibre initials per seed as a factor
determines fibre yield. However, the mechanisms controlling fibre initiation from ovule …

Photoperiodic flowering in Arabidopsis: Multilayered regulatory mechanisms of CONSTANS and the florigen FLOWERING LOCUS T

H Takagi, AK Hempton, T Imaizumi - Plant communications, 2023 - cell.com
The timing of flowering affects the success of sexual reproduction. This developmental event
also determines crop yield, biomass, and longevity. Therefore, this mechanism has been …

Single-cell technologies: From research to application

L Wen, G Li, T Huang, W Geng, H Pei, J Yang, M Zhu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
In recent years, more and more single-cell technologies have been developed. A vast
amount of single-cell omics data has been generated by large projects, such as the Human …